Liam’s Daily…

In doing research on Cults in America, and specifically those that re-form themselves as schools for troubled teens, I found this handy chart (see below), taken from Dr. Margaret Singer’s book, Cults in Our Midst (at Factnet.org ) outlining some of the differences between education and thought reform (also called “brain-washing”), and some of the stops along the way – advertising, indoctrination and propaganda.

Which of these processes best describe your school days? Your grade school? High school? College?

Your work environment? A corporate work environment?

Where does television news fit in this array? National Public Radio? AM talk radio?

Where do the current Presidential candidates fit on the chart?

Where does the Bird Flu scare fit?

The HPV “Cervical Cancer” Vaccine campaign? Education or Advertising? Or Propaganda?

Aids Education? (See the previous exchange with Dr. Nick Bennett for one example).

The Public debates on Evolution? Global Warming? Abortion?

Read the rest of this entry »

By Liam Scheff
Salvo Magazine - Summer 2006

Here are three ideas that you will never see debated by the major media:

• Was a bird-flu pandemic ever really likely?
• Is AIDS in fact a sexually transmitted disease?
• Does current evolutionary theory truly explain the diversity of life on earth?

Each of these widely-promoted beliefs is contradicted by more competing evidence than you can shake a stick at (from wide and varied sources), but you’ll never hear about it from the major outlets for science news - the New York Times, PBS, NPR, the BBC, or CNN - because the media simply doesn’t question the received scientific wisdom.

Because the major media doesn’t do science journalism the way it reports news.

When watch the news, we expect to hear crossfire and flak. We’re not flustered by divergent takes on policy. We feel that government business should be aired and battled over in the public sphere. We expect policy-makers and government officials to regularly submit to hard questions from the press, and to take the hot seat on the news shows.

Read the Rest Here. Comment Below.

The much anticipated bird-flu plague has yet to emerge, despite much hue and cry. This comes as no surprise to those of us who are familiar with the machinations of the WHO (World Health Organization), CDC and NIH, and their pharmaceutical partners.

But, for those more trusting of public health authorities who wish to know more about the making of public health policy, I thought I’d review some of the bright and shiny inconsistencies that have come into view on the bird flu.

Stray Cats and Chinamen.

In March, 2006, The Associated Press reported: “In Austria, state authorities said Monday that three cats have tested positive for the deadly strain of bird flu in the country’s first reported case of the disease spreading to an animal other than a bird.”

The report quoted the World Health Organization (WHO), which said that “bird flu poses a greater challenge to the world than any infectious disease, including AIDS…”

Really? Bigger than AIDS? Who knew? But why would it be so? Because three cats in Austria tested positive? What does that mean? How many cats, in all of Austria, did they test? What would happen if you tested every cat?

How about every bird? How about every person? Do we know how many people actually have tested positive for bird flu? Maybe a dozen? A couple hundred?

How about millions.

Read the rest of this entry »

Academic medicine has been and is the most important pillar of support of all dictatorships and governments which do not want to submit to written law, to constitutions, to human rights, that is, to the democratically legitimized social contract.

– Virologist Dr. Stephan Lanka – Interview 10.27.2005

– flu survivors in Vietnam

Is there a bird flu pandemic? German virologist Dr. Stephan Lanka says no, and does so in detail. here

He makes some points that I’m sure will seem startling, but there’s a wonderfully no-nonsense, common-sense approach to his thinking (“Think for yourself, look into it yourself”), and a refreshing lack of fear-mongering.

Read the rest of this entry »

We’ve been told to prepare for a bird flu pandemic, but none has emerged. What’s happened since the initial reporting?

What was happening in Southeast Asia, where the majority of problems seemed to occur?

The major media has compared the the possibility of a flu-epidemic with what happened in 1918, at the end of World War 1. Is this a reasonable comparison?

We’ve been told that vaccinations and Tamiflu will help us, but is that true?

In sum, I haven’t heard these questions asked or answered by the major media or public health offices:
Read the rest of this entry »

Roche Lab’s Tamiflu (Oseltamivir) is an anti-enzyme drug that’s being sold and sought widely in light of the much-fanned hue and cry over the potential flu.

Damn those birds (and call my broker)!

Tamiflu isn’t a new drug. It shows up in Roche’s roster back in 1999 – after they bought if from Gilead Pharmaceuticals, which designed it in 1996.

Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve been trying to tell a few fellow critical thinkers that the bird flu ain’t what it appears to be.

I will be providing more on that question in the days to come.

For now, it’s worth noting that the public’s tendency towards “Let’s Get Scared!” has given opportunity to a blow-job of a pharmaceutical bill.

Sorry for the language – But try this on for size – a bill poised to take away:

• the FDA,

• the Freedom of Information Act,

• And your (or your family’s) ability to sue if you are injured or killed from use of a vaccine, drug or other pharma product.

Read the rest of this entry »